The Clifton clarion., 1887-12-28
LordsburG Correspondence.

given at the Ownby House Xmas
 eve. He has her so that she can
 get around on crutches.
 Mike Donovan, our village
 blacksmith, met with what might
 have been a serious accident
 through the explosion of his
 bellows. The concussion was so
 great as to throw him six or eight
 feet. He sustained slight injuries
 about the head and neck.
 Christmas was observed in a
 way that would be fit for commu-
 mites that make high religious
 pretensions to note. No brawls
 or fights or drunks to record; but
 rather that exhibition of good
 feeling was manifested which characterized the motto of good
 will to all men" In the way of sport, a chicken shooting match was the principal event. Ed.
 Stoller and J. P. Ownby were the prize-receiving shots in the crder named; and Pap Ambler took the persimmon for the poorest one; but accounts for his poor shooting by blaming Ralph Fetterly's Tom and Jerry with undue influence"
 To see q person on the streets on the 21st and 22nd was like coming across a rare piece of statuary in a wilderness. The cause was the severity of the storm that occurred upon the above dates, which reached its climax on the morning of the 23d, when the thermometer reg istered eight degrees below zero. Our oldest inhabitants, to use an expression that comes handy, say such a cold snap never had been before to their recol- lections on this coast; and a num- Der of them are "49ers," too. But Tn keeping with the time honored aphorism that there is always a calm after a storm, the weather has moderated to such an extent in 24 hours that person feels glad, after passing through the ordeal, of course, and can fully appreciate the uniform mild ness of our climate. As 1 write the sun is shining with a grateful glow of warmth and people can be seen on the streets in their shirt sleeves. Quite a number predict most beneficial results to follow 5n the trail of the blizzard in this, that the seasons incident to Ari- zona and New Mexlco are likely to change and be more season able; that rains will become uni form and regular; that droughthy periods will be the exception in- stead of the rule; in other words, the fertile lands, both on mountain and plan, which heretofore has been passed over and neglected, will become fruitful if the magic wand of the plow-shear touches it under the guidance of the intelli- gent farmer Ii such should come about, and 1t will, who can nave the faintest conception of he wealth and afluence that is possible for attainment in either .erritory, with their mountains of and expansive arabic lomaIn. New Mexico and Ari- .ona is a perfect India Tn wealth, Is time will demonstrate, through agriculture alone. So, if the storm will work such a change, it is truly blessing Tn disguise.
 Col. Jack Fleming of Silver City and Andrew B. Ferrie, who las just returned from Europe, osssed through to Clifton on Monday.
 The East-bound passenger was ditched and wrecked at Tunis last Saturday. This makes the fifth accident in ten days, and still no one killed.
 Three new Mcqueen locomo- tives, built at Schenectady, \. '. passed through to Tucson. They are extension front boilers, and look to be powerful machines. They are numbered 226, 227 and 22S. QUID NUNc.
 Lordsburg, Dee. 2Gth.
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